Tue.Jul 07, 2020

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3 Steps to Develop Big, New Ideas for Your Consulting Firm

David A Fields

How do you consistently create powerful ideas that stimulate every aspect of your consulting firm? Below, we’ll explore one, straightforward, reliable approach. Have you ever read or heard an innovative idea and reflected, “Man, I wish I had thought of that?” Ideas like employing artificial intelligence to shortcut your client assessment process, or building a … Continued.

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Can a Public Company Ever Be Lean?

Markovitz Consulting

Can public US companies really embrace lean? Well sure, they can deploy lean tools here and there, but the whole socio-technical system that comprises lean? I don’t think so. Wall Street pressure for quarterly profits competes fiercely with lean principles, both inside and outside the company. Executives who take the long-term view and view employees as appreciating assets worthy of investment, rather than variable costs to be minimized, put their companies at risk of attack from outside “activi

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Find your purpose – reassess what matters most and regain your motivation

The Management Centre

The challenge: The world is a mess, or rather the world feels a lot messier than it did in 2019 – largely due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The pandemic has been tough to deal with and yet deal with it still we must. It has been challenging in different ways. For some of us, working at home and staying at home so much has been oddly confusing, lonely and isolating.

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The Business Development Secrets Of An Industry Disruptor

Henry DeVries

Business development secret: everyone has the potential to be an industry leader.

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PowerPoint Best Practices for Creating Stellar Presentations

Mastering data visualization in PowerPoint will help accelerate your career because it positions you as someone who can present data that drives business decisions forward. think-cell's PowerPoint Best Practices eBook was created specifically for professionals aiming to master the art and science of data-driven storytelling. What’s inside: Practical Insights: Uncover valuable tips for crafting engaging and persuasive presentations.

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Revisiting The Law of Raspberry Jam

Kai Davis

Again and again, I’m drawn back to Gerald Weinberg’s The Law of Raspberry Jam. The more you spread it, the thinner it is. As indie consultants & freelancers, the law of raspberry jam is one that we violate at our peril. Think about the essential marketing items that you need in place to market your business, grow, and generate leads: A narrow, specific target market for your positioning.

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Client Request Profiler

Consultants' Consultant

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The 100 hour asset

Seth Godin Blog

We’re all so busy doing our work that sometimes we fail to build a skill worth owning. If you invest 100 hours in a rare skill, you’re likely to acquire it. If you could learn to sharpen a tool better than your peers, organize a high-performance database, see the nuances in some sector of cryptography, know how to build a pretty-good WordPress site or really understand the arc of a particular writer’s career, you’d have something of value.

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Business Valuation and Deals During COVID, and Other Turmoil

Martinka Consulting

I’ve been asked by quite a few people for my thoughts on business valuations and deals during the COVID-19 crisis. I’ve also been asked if there will be a lot of “good deals.” Here are my thoughts, the first one being extremely important. There will be no “deals” on good businesses, i.e. ones that survived or thrived during the virus crisis. My second thought is almost as important: Nobody really knows what’s going to happen.

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I’ll Be Outside, Throw Me Some Food

Alan Weiss

A restaurant we’ve patronized since it first opened on a weekly basis, including take-out during the crisis, apparently was taking people on a first-come basis once in a new “phase” here. However, a masked hostess, standing six feet away, who is obviously new and I’d never met, told us we needed a reservation and we couldn’t be seated, and that was that.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Pricing Strategies for Uncertain Times

Harvard Business

A conversation with pricing expert Rafi Mohammed on when and how to change prices in response to Covid-19.

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A Better Way to Scale Covid-19 Testing

Harvard Business

Online marketplaces can connect those who have tests with those who need to provide them.

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SmileDirectClub Looks Beyond Direct-to-Consumer Marketing

Harvard Business

Why and how to move beyond a direct-to-consumer strategy.

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How Businesses Have Successfully Pivoted During the Pandemic

Harvard Business

A look at what’s worked and why.

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Savings Consultants Are Needed in Today's Market More Than Ever

Savings Consultants are needed in today’s market more than ever. With an increase in expenses, businesses are looking for opportunities to save. Often unknown to businesses are savings in expense reduction, specialized tax savings, specialized savings including medical underpayments, health benefits cost reduction, zero cost processing, and more. Blue Coast Savings, with over 20 years in business, assists Savings Consultants in helping these companies move toward more profitable businesses.

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Adventures in Alternative Work Arrangements

Harvard Business

We’re not in the office anymore.

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Research: How Workers Shift from One Industry to Another

Harvard Business

What does it take to make the leap?